I am going to try posting here again with more detail to see if I can finally get my first program to work.
I am working on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.11. I opened a new window in IDLE to create a file. The file had only one line of code and was saved as module1.py. I saved it to Macintosh HD. The one line of code in the file is copied below: print 'Hello module world!' I closed the file and tried to run it in IDLE and Terminal, but I have had no success. I'll paste my commands and the error messages below (for IDLE, then Terminal). Any help would be very much appreciated. I feel like the marathon just started and I've fallen flat on my face. Thanks. IDLE 2.6.2 >>> python module1.py SyntaxError: invalid syntax sean-m-computer:~ seanm$ python Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Apr 16 2009, 09:17:39) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> python module1.py File "<stdin>", line 1 python module1.py ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list